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Obamacare Poised to Cause Insurance Cancellations, Networks Silent
According to Fox News and several print media outlets tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of people are about to be notified that their health insurance policies are being cancelled, thanks to Obamacare.
That could mean bad news for liberals just weeks before 2014 midterm elections, except the broadcast networks have refused to report it. ABC, CBS and NBC news programs failed to mention…
October 10th, 2014 11:24 AM
Grist Writer Bashes Former Coal CEO: ‘Frightening & Sociopathic’
Eco-lefty David Roberts is at it again: spewing hateful remarks about people he disagrees with. Roberts, a staff writer at the liberal environmental website Grist.com, and self-described “climate hawk,” tweeted out a nasty attack on Don Blankenship on Oct. 9. Blankenship is the former Chairman and CEO of Massey Energy Co.
On Twitter, Roberts said Blankenship was “one of the most frightening…
October 10th, 2014 11:13 AM
Gwyneth Paltrow Coos: Obama 'So Handsome That I Can't Speak Properly'
Even Us Magazine is noticing movie star Gwyneth Paltrow oozing all over President Obama at a $32,500-a-head fundraiser in her back yard on Thursday: “overcome with nerves, the actress stumbled a little before passing the microphone off to the President, telling him flirtatiously, ‘You're so handsome that I can't speak properly.’”
That came after she declared "I am one of your biggest fans, if…
October 10th, 2014 10:49 AM
Mike Barnicle: Shut Up, Jimmy Carter! People Prefer President Obama
You know it's getting bad for Obama's foreign policy when Jimmy Carter attacks him for being weak and vacillating. On Thursday's Morning Joe, co-host Mika Brzezinski read the Carter critique on the air, and they talked about Leon Panetta's argument against Obama's weakness. Mark Halperin added that the Panetta view is shared by people inside the Obama adminstration and Democratic circles. This…
October 10th, 2014 10:15 AM
Jonathan Capehart Hopes Mary Landrieu Can 'Wobble' to Re-Election
Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post believes that the possible key to Senator Mary Landrieu's re-election is knowing how to "Wobble." Yes, knowledge of a Louisiana dance step takes priority over a voting record or policy positions.
October 10th, 2014 9:53 AM
Grist Writer Bashes Former Coal CEO: ‘Frightening & Sociopathic
David Roberts, who had to apologize for 2006 ‘climate Nuremberg’ remarks, tweets attack on businessman.
October 10th, 2014 9:44 AM
Todd : Grimes 'Disqualified' By Refusing to Say If She Voted for Obama
Whatever liberal leanings he might have, sometimes the political animal in Chuck Todd just can't contain itself. Take today's Morning Joe, where Todd absolutely annihilated Alison Lundergan Grimes, Dem candidate for senator from Kentucky, for her refusal to say whether she voted for Barack Obama for president.
Todd ripped Grimes as "ridiculous," then twice declared that she had "disqualified…
October 10th, 2014 9:00 AM
Scarborough: Panetta Reveals 'Lack of Character' For Criticizing Obama
Remember when dissent was patriotic? When people like Hillary Clinton screeched that "we have a right to disagree with any administration?" Forget about it. That's so, like, 2003. You know, when George W. Bush was President.
Things are different today. Now, criticizing a sitting president is wrong. Very wrong. Just ask Joe Scarborough, who on today's Morning Joe accused Leon Panetta of a "…
October 10th, 2014 7:32 AM
On Letterman, Robert Duvall Zings Stephen Colbert: ‘Not That Funny’
Stephen Colbert will replace the retiring David Letterman next year, but Colbert’s smart-ass, ridiculing of conservatives act doesn’t impress legendary actor Robert Duvall. On Thursday’s Late Show, as his segment with Letterman was wrapping up, Duvall pressed Letterman: “Why are you retiring? That guy taking over’s not that funny. That guy’s not that funny. Sorry, maybe your friend.”
October 10th, 2014 2:52 AM
NYT's Kristof Shows Numerical Incoherence to Promote Islam's Diversity
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof twisted numbers and lowered the moral bar while trying to prove "The Diversity of Islam." Kristof had a bit part in the now-famous rumble between actor Ben Affleck and the liberal atheist host Bill Maher on Maher's HBO show Real Time, with Affleck accusing Maher of racism for his hard criticism of Islam's intolerance and violence, and Kristof predictably…
October 9th, 2014 10:56 PM
PBS Anchor's Rare Question: Don't Democrats Have a Problem With Men?
Like the other networks, the PBS NewsHour has been very slow to offer any stories or interviews to the midterm elections. In October, the closest thing to a candidate interview was a chat with Rep. Paul Ryan on October 1. On Tuesday, anchor Judy Woodruff promoted liberal Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), a potential presidential candidate if you listen to the pundits -- but she's not on the…
October 9th, 2014 10:31 PM
ABC, NBC Continue to Omit Mention of Reported WH Prostitution Cover-Up
According to a report in The Washington Post, senior White House officials knew that an individual with the White House advance team had a prostitute spend the night with him as part of the 2012 Colombian prostitution scandal despite the White House previously denying any involvement during the official investigation.
After failing to cover the story on their morning newscasts, ABC and NBC…
October 9th, 2014 10:04 PM
Michelle Bernard Rushes to Defend Obama Staffer Who Patronized Hooker
Self-proclaimed "victims' rights advocate" and MSNBC contributor Michelle Bernard wasted no time on Thursday's edition of Hardball defending former White House volunteer Jonathan Dach -- now employed at the State Department in the Office on Global Women's Issues -- from charges that he patronized a prostitute while on official business as an Obama advance man in Cartagena, Colombia.
October 9th, 2014 9:39 PM
Salon's Walsh: It's 'No Accident' Ebola Victim Died in 'Perry's Texas'
While liberals always hate to “let a good tragedy go to waste,” Joan Walsh – editor at large of Salon magazine – might have set a new record for implementing that strategy just hours after Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan died on Thursday.
“It’s probably no accident,” she declared, that the Liberian's passing “happened in [governor] Rick Perry’s Texas. More than 1.5 million Texans, with a…
October 9th, 2014 7:48 PM